YouTube Analytics: Measuring the Performance of YouTube Videos

youtube analytics

In an earlier blog post we covered how to integrate your YouTube web analytics into Google Analytics. To find out who is watching your videos and how you can generate more views and interactions you can turn to YouTube Analytics. Its reports tell you who your viewers are, where they …

New Google Analytics Treemaps

New Google Analytics Treemaps

Google Analytics recently added a new Treemaps feature to Acquisition Reports as part of the March 30, 2015 Google Analytics update.  Treemaps are a very useful way to understand how traffic arrives to your website. You can find Google Analytics Treemaps under: Acquisition > All Traffic > Treemaps So what …

5 Powerful Google Analytics Features You Should Use

5 Powerful Google Analytics Features You Should Use

Google Analytics is a powerful tool, but most users do not even scratch the surface of what it can do. A few simple changes in the Google Analytics interface can activate reports and features that are much more useful than the default setup. We recommend enabling the following 5 features: …

Enhanced Ecommerce in Google Analytics: An Introduction

Enhanced Ecommerce Kaufverhaltensanalyse

In this blog post we will give you an introduction to the new Enhanced Ecommerce functionality in Google Analytics. Enhanced Ecommerce is part of Universal Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce was rolled out as one of the major improvements of Universal Analytics.  It is an improved version of the ecommerce tracking available …

Analytics Tips: 6 Tag Management Tools You Should Know

Tag Management Tools

Tag manager tools allow you to quickly and easily add and update tags on your website.  Tags are small snippets of code that add new features or functionalities to your site, like web analytics tracking, remarketing or conversion tracking, optimization and testing services, and many other marketing technologies. Tag management …

Fighting Referrer Spam in Google Analytics

Referrer Spam in Google Analytics: Nicht draufklicken!

Referrer spam is becoming more and more of a problem in Google Analytics.  Referrer spam, sometimes known as referrer bombing, is a technique that exploits the way Google Analytics gathers data to insert fake traffic from spam websites into your Referral reports. It corrupts your web analytics data and wastes …

Mobile Analytics at the Analytics Roundtable

Mobile Analytics at the Analytics Roundtable

Omar Moling of 42matters presented an “Intro to Mobile App Analytics” at the latest meeting of the Analytics Roundtable at the Amazee Metrics offices.  In this introduction he covered some of the main differences and similarities between mobile app analytics and analytics.  Focusing on using Google Analytics for Android apps, …

Player Analytics: Powerful Analytics Reports for Google Play Games

Google Play Games

Player Analytics, a set of analytics reports for game developers, will soon come to Google Play Games. Google announced that this service will launch in the next few weeks as part of a set of new features for Google Play Games and Admob. Player Analytics will help developers better understand …

How to Combine Google AdWords with Google Analytics

combining Google AdWords with Google Analytics

Both Google AdWords and Google Analytics gather a lot of data on the performance of your AdWords campaigns. By combining these tools you get deeper understanding of your ads. With Google Analytics, you are able to see what visitors do after the clicked on your AdWords ad. Google has published …

Google Analytics Updates its AdWords Search Queries Report

Google Analytics Update für den AdWords Search Queries Report

Google Analytics recently announced the introduction of the Query Word Count dimension in Google Analytics AdWords reports.  This allows you to segment AdWords Search Queries by the number of words in the query.   This way you can easily see how short queries with only a few keywords perform differently …